David T. Koyzis

At the risk of sounding cantankerous, I will take the occasion to point out that a twenty-three-year-old is an adult. Continue Reading »

If the Bible has a vantage point, it is not simply that of the oppressed, as if this were a readily identifiable class of persons. Continue Reading »

The outbreak of war in 1914 unleashed a decades-long chain reaction that left millions uprooted and exiled. My own presence in this world would not have come about were it not for these events. Continue Reading »

Although the biblical Psalms are a product of the old covenant, for centuries the Christian Church has sought and found Jesus Christ in its historic song book. A number of Psalms have been designated messianic in character, including Psalms 2, 22, 30, 69, 72, 110, and 118. This is due either to . . . . Continue Reading »

Baptism marks the Christian’s entry into the covenant community. At baptism the recipient’s sponsors make promises on the candidate’s behalf, as does the community witnessing the baptism. Baptism itself does not save in an ultimate sense, but it is a proximate means of grace which . . . . Continue Reading »

In Plato’s Republic , Socrates’ conversation with his friends over the nature of justice takes a startling turn when Thrasymachus drops a bombshell. It is more profitable, he argues, for people to be unjust than just, if they can manage to get away with it without incurring a bad . . . . Continue Reading »

In Malcolm Magee’s fascinating book on Woodrow Wilson’s “faith-based foreign policy,” What the World Should Be , the author notes that, in the two major conflicts during Wilson’s administration, the president took sides largely out of a desire to divide the world into . . . . Continue Reading »

Allison Benedikt could perhaps stand to take a few lessons from Mark Twain or Will Rogers, because her obviously satirical article in Slate has elicited a number of angry responses from readers who have taken her seriously. Here’s the article at issue: ” If You Send Your Kid to Private . . . . Continue Reading »

Nowadays we have difficulty imagining why anyone would willingly consent to be roused from a supposedly deep slumber by the summons to pray at midnight.
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At the start of the twentieth century the Middle East was largely ruled by the Ottoman Turks, with Great Britain administering certain territories in their behalf, such as Egypt and Cyprus. Although Muslims outnumbered Christians, there were still sizable Christian minorities, including the . . . . Continue Reading »